Burdick v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “proof of a nexus between the requisite disorder and dangerousness to encompass proof that the disorder involves serious difficulty in controlling behavior and suffices to distinguish a dangerous sexual offender whose disorder subjects him to civil commitment from the dangerous but typical recidivist in the ordinary criminal case.”

   10 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. William Joseph Carter State v. Carter (In Re Carter) · Interest of Tanner

2. “(1) the individual has engaged in sexually predatory conduct; (2) the individual has a congenital or acquired condition that is manifested by a sexual disorder, a personality disorder, or other mental disorder or dysfunction; and (3) the disorder makes the individual likely to engage in further acts of sexually predatory conduct.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. William Joseph Carter State v. Carter (In Re Carter) · Interest of Tanner

3. “require the conduct evidencing the individual's serious difficulty in controlling his behavior to be sexual in nature.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. William Joseph Carter State v. Carter (In Re Carter) · Lawyer v. J.M.(In re J.M.)